Multistore setup with subdomain working oddly

[nayll]

I have read the instructions, pretty straight forward. I would have thought.

 

My developer had made a subfolder called "teen" and put and older version of the whole store in there to test a module without using multistore function

 

main domain  nayll.com

subdomain teen.nayll.com  IE: nayll.com/teen

 

so you could enter teen.nayll.com in the browser and it would come up. So I thought I would active multistore to modify and work with it. So I went through the hoops setting up the second store within the same group as the main store, in the URL field I put teen.nayll.com.

 

so in the BO I now have the two stores, I pick teen and turn off a CMS page. on the main site nayll.com the CMS page is gone and the teen CMS page remains. Whatever I do to the teen site in the BO is only reflected on the main site? though I can choose the teen store in the BO I seem to have no affect to the teen site in the BO.

 

I know the second site teen should not have a new subfolder so I rename that and then the teen site goes into 403 forbidden?

 

if I change the physical URL to teen/ it doesn't change anything.

 

I'm very confused, not hard to do.

 

any insight?

 

I want to have a second store that shares the products, but not customers or orders, a clone if you will that I can use as a template then just change the graphics and text later that uses the subdomain "teen.nayll.com"

 

I've read all related posts I can but did not see this issue.

Edited March 18, 2014 by nayll (see edit history)

[nayll]

OK, so i got rid of the teen folder, change the subdomain rewritet to be the root folder of nayll.com, went through the multistore setup again, made a new store group "teen" and a new store "teen" used the main store as a template by copying all the stuff,

 

in the BO I choose "teen" and turn of a CMS page and no matter what combination of things I do that change is reflected in the main store??? This is not how it is supposed to behave.

 

as far as I can tell everything is is right??

[nayll]

OK, so I found the associations radio buttons in the CMS page itself. BUT this does not solve the cross store changes,

 

If I need different text in a  specific CMS page for the different store, or i don't need a specific CMS page then I have to have a completely separate one and turn off the other other stores ability to see it????